October 2005 Next Meeting October 25 Potrero Hill Neighborhood House 953 DeHaro Street (at Southern Heights)

6:45 pm 7:00 pm Social Business Meeting Introductions / Welcome to New Members Police Report Supervisor Sophie Maxwell Q & A Break Rajiv Bhatia, SF Dept. of Public Health Environmental Health for Potrero/Bayview Neighborhood Issues Getting a New Police Captain Surveillance Cameras on the Hill? Helicopter Pad at SF General Hospital?

DAY 67

7:20 pm 7:55 pm 8:05 pm 8:30 pm

NO CAPTAIN AT BAYVIEW STATION

Bruces retirement, we still do not have a captain at Bayview Station, and no indication of when we will.
This situation is intolerable for a police district the size of Bayview, with the issues that their officers and we in the neighborhoods face each day. Captain Bruce was a trailblazer

October is Potrero Hill Month

6th Annual Potrero Hill History Night, sponsored by the Potrero Hill Association of Merchants and Businesses and the Potrero Boosters
Saturday, October 22, 6 pm, Enola D, Maxwell Middle School

Opening Celebration of the Mission Bay Community Center

Friday, October 28, 11 am - 3 pm, Owens & 16th Streets

Farleys Pet Parade, 18th Street from Arkansas to Texas

Saturday, October 29, 1 pm, 18th & Arkansas Streets

during his time here, establishing community policing practices that got results and building better relationships between the police and our communities. Every day that we dont have a new captain with the same priorities and dedication, we lose some of what he brought to the district. We are not blaming the recent increase in violent crime on the Hill on the lack of a captain, and we strongly support the fine and brave work done by all the officers and staff of Bayview Station. But how long should they have to put up with this lack of support from downtown? Not having a captain on duty at Bayview Station is an graphic at the top of this column will stay in this newsletter until action is taken.
embarrassment for the Department, the Police Commission, and the City, and it needs to be addressed immediately. The

Potrero Hill Parents Association Halloween Trick or Treat Night: hundreds of kids visiting local merchants

Monday, October 31, 5 pm, 18th Street from Connecticut to Texas

and Coming Back in December ...

The Potrero Boosters Holiday Party free food and drink from Axis Cafe, eggnog, a warm fireplace and an outdoor patio
Sunday, December 4, 36 pm, Axis Cafe, 1201 8th Street

Presidents Message
Booster members report that there have been at least seven armed robberies on the 600 block of Connecticut Street since April. Shooting deaths on Potrero Hill, the public housing on the Hill, and in the Bayview are on the rise again after a lull during the summer. District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell told the San Francisco Chronicle recently, We're in a state of emergency, The mayor should call the chief, the district attorney, the supervisors from the affected districts together to strategize. . . . San Francisco has to take responsibility. We have to do something. We've not done enough. . . . If we don't step forward, these killers are going to continue to control the city, They'll continue to kill women and babies. I don't know what the police are doing.

Well hear more from Supervisor Maxwell at our next meeting on Tuesday night about City and community efforts to fight crime on the Hill and in the Bayview, what can be done to get more affordable housing out of the Planning Departments rezoning initiatives in our neighborhoods, and anything else you want to ask. On Tuesday, well also have Rajiv Bhatia, Director of Environmental Health for the Citys Health Department. We think youll be surprised at how strong the connections are between land use, nutrition, violence, and public health in the eastern neighborhoods of the City; and well discuss what we can do about that.

Here at the Boosters, we agree with the Supervisor, and we know of at least one thing that the police are NOT doing. After more than two months since Captain Rick

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CITY PLANNING
BLDG PERMIT APPLICATION #2005.08039354: 519 ARKANSAS/ 20 & 22nd Sts. Propose to legalize a rear stair and deck that was built without a permit that encroaches into the rear yard of an existing single family house with a single car garage in an RH-2, 40-X zone. Contact: Ben Fu, Planner, ph: 558-6613. RECEIVING ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, Case #2004.0872E: 1415 16th Street &1740 17th/De Haro & Carolina Sts. The proposed PUD plans to demolish 2 existg buildings (Jamba Juice & Sports Basement) & construct a Planned Unit Development (PUD) consisting of a new 4-story over basement building with 103 residential units, 43,124 sq ft Production/Distribution/ Repair space, 228 offstreet parking spaces on a 62,375 sq ft lot in an M-2, 40-X zone. The project site is located within the Eastern Neighborhoods Community Planning area and the Showplace Square Interim Controls, but is exempt because the EIR Application was filed prior to November 23, 2004. Contact: Tammy Chan, EIR Reviewer, ph: 558-5982. RECEIVING ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, Case #2004.1004E: 1150 16th/8th/Irwin Sts. The proposed project will consist of a 5-story mixed-use building with 16 residential units, 16 off-street parking spaces and 1,072 sq ft of ground floor commercial space. The project is in an M-2 (industrial), 50 ft -X zone and would require a Conditional Use authorizations from the Planning Dept. Contact: Joy Ran Ahmadi, Reviewer, ph: 558-5966. RECEIVING ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, Case #2004.0946E: 1717 17th/Carolina Sts. The proposed PUD plans to demolish 3 existg buildings & construct 41 residential units,10,830 sq ft Production/ Distribution/Repair space, 61 off-street parking spaces on a triangular 25,469 sq ft lot in an M-1, 40-X zone. The project site is located within ther Eastern Neighborhoods Community Planning area and the Showplace Square Interim Controls, but exempt because the Environmental Application was filed prior to 23 Nov. 04. Contact: Tammy Chan, EIR Reviewer, ph: 558-5982. City Hall Web site:

COMMUNITY RESOURCES
1 Goodlett Place Rm 200 SF Ca 94102 www.sfgov.org ph: 554-6141 fax 554-6160 gavin.newsom@sfgov.org

Mayor Gavin Newsom

Supervisor Sophie Maxwell / District 10 (which includes Potrero Hill): ph: 554-7670 fax 554-7674 Sophie.Maxwell@sfgov.org Bayview Police Station 201 Williams St, SF 94124 SFPD Web site: www.sfgov.org/police/ Capt. Rick Bruce ph: 671-2300 fax 671-2345 Rick_Bruce@ci.sf.ca.us Abandoned autos 254-7185 (Officer Maurice Edwards) Encampments, trash 254-7120 (Office Tim Buelow) Drug dealing, etc. 254-7107 (Sgt. Carl Fabbri, Lt. Charlie Orkes) Potrero Boosters Executive Committee Tony Kelly 341-8040 President president@potreroboosters.org Dick Millet 861-0345 First Vice President 1stvp@potreroboosters.org Second Vice President Piotr Pawlikowski 328-1435 2ndvp@potreroboosters.org Recording Secretary Joe Boss 826-2525 recordingsecretary@potreroboosters.org Corresponding Sec. Audrey Cole 648-1926 correspondingsecretary@potreroboosters.org Treasurer Kuzuri Jackson 826-8080 treasurer@potreroboosters.org Sergeant-at-Arms Ellen Kernaghan 824-5065 Jean Neblett 550-2613 Auditors 822-2301 Susan Eslick Webmaster: Joseph Schaller 648-4267 webmaster@potreroboosters.org

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